Author: Futuristika

[dropcap]P[/dropcap]i Artworks London announced Susan Hefuna’s third solo exhibition with the gallery and her first at our London venue. Cairotraces features a new series of her highly regarded works on paper as well as a newly commissioned palm wood installation. At the core of Hefuna’s practice is her fascination with the networks and structures of…

Ghost talks to Aysegul Dogan from Futuristika! No name, just nickname “ghost”. He is not trying to be “different”. All we have to know is his work of art. Ghost thinks that we should only focus on that.

[intense_lead font_color=”#0f0e0e”]Cairotraces features a new series of her highly regarded works on paper as well as a newly commissioned palm wood installation.[/intense_lead] At the core of Hefuna’s practice is her fascination with the networks and structures of connection that inhabit public spaces and become the framework for peoples’ interactions with each other. She is particularly interested…

“The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds, Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day;  But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.” – Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil Introduction Neoliberal fascism has a sense of #poetry, an ambiguous coherence that is hard to spot at…

Akbank Sanat opens the 2014-2015 season with a worldwide exhibition. This will be the most comprehensive exhibition to date of works by one of the most prominent founders of the conceptual art of 20th century, conceptual artist and poet Marcel Broodthaers who is regarded to be an école in his own right. Besides using writing,…

Belgian artist and poet Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976), a leading figure in 20th-century conceptual art, is the focus of Akbank Art Center’s newest exhibition opening this week, kicking off the new season at the Taksim-based center. “Words, Things, Concepts,” opening on Thursday, was put together in collaboration with Belgium’s Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), a…

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Marcus O’Dair’s biography Different Every Time: The Authorised Biography Of Robert Wyatt, published by Serpent’s Tail.   Robert left the Langton school at the start of 1962 and enrolled at the local art college. It could have been a fertile environment. Painting and sculpture had been keen interests since childhood, with the Swiss painter Paul Klee a…

The works included in Disquiet possess a sense of dreamlike unease. Sometimes this is expressed through phantasmagorical scenarios that are not tied to the real world and where time and space seem suspended. At other times it is exemplified by rearticulating historical and political narratives to let the imaginary, rather than historical or political fact,…